The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An Online Catalogue Raisonné under the Direction of Société Paul Cezanne
(Formerly directed by Walter Feilchenfeldt, Jayne Warman and David Nash)
FWN 683
L'Homme à la pipe
1892–96
Alternate titles: L'homme à la pipe; Les Joueurs de cartes; Man with a pipe; Man with Pipe; Man with Pipe (Study for the Card Players); Study for the Card Players
Rewald (711): 1892–96; Venturi revised: 1890–92; Venturi (566): 1890–92
Oil on canvas
10 3/16 x 8 1/16 in. (26 x 20.5 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3780, le fumeur; huile, 20 x 26 cm (25 frs)
Vollard archives: photo no. 563, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1894
Provenance
Exhibition History
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Modern French Painting, May 22–June 30, 1931, no. 13, as Man with Pipe (Study for the Card Players).
Marie Harriman Gallery, New York, French Paintings, March–April 1932.
Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne, November 10–December 10, 1934, no. 36, ill., (dated c. 1891–92), as Study for the Card Players, lent by Harriman Gallery.
Marie Harriman Gallery, New York, Cézanne, Derain and Others, February 17–March 14, 1936, no. 3, as Man with a pipe.
San Diego Museum, San Diego, 1937.
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, Paul Cézanne: Exhibition of Paintings, Water-colors, Drawings and Prints, September 1–October 4, 1937, no. 28, ill. lent by Harriman Gallery.
Marie Harriman Gallery, New York, Cézanne: Centennial Exhibition, November 7–December 2, 1939, no. 15, (dated 1890–92), as L'Homme à la pipe, lent by Harriman.
The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio, The Little Show, 1945.
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Paintings by Paul Cézanne, February 5–March 9, 1947, no. 8, ill. lent by Harriman.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Cézanne, March 27–April 26, 1947, no. 47, ill. lent by Harriman.
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, Pictures for a Picture of Gertrude Stein as a Collector and Writer on Art and Artists, February 11–March 11, 1951, no. 5, as Man with Pipe, lent by Averell Harriman. Traveled to: The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, March 21–April 21, 1951.
Pavillon de Vendôme, Aix-en-Provence, France, Exposition pour commémorer le cinquantenaire de la mort de Cézanne, July 21–August 15, 1956, no. 45, ill. lent by Harriman.
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Paul Cézanne, October 12–November 18, 1956, no. 51, lent by Harriman.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., The Marie and Averell Harriman Collection, April 15–May 14, 1961, no number, ill., p. 16.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Four Americans in Paris: The Collections of Gertrude Stein and Her Family, December 19, 1970–March 1, 1971, no number. Traveled to: Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, April 4–June 14, 1971; San Francisco Museum of Art, San Frnacisco, California, September 9–October 31, 1971.
Taft Museum, Cincinnati, Small Paintings from Famous Collections, April 4–June 7, 1981.
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey, Cézanne and American Modernism, September 13, 2009–January 3, 2010, no. 12, ill., p. 154, as L'Homme à la pipe. Traveled to: The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, February 14–May 23, 2010; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, June 26–September 26, 2010.
Courtauld Gallery, London, Cézanne's Card Players, October 21, 2010–January 16, 2011, no. 15, ill., as Man with a pipe. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February 9–May 8, 2011.
La Boverie, Liège, Belgium, 21 rue La Boetie, September 22, 2016–January 29, 2017, notice 22 p. 199, ill., as L'homme à la pipe.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 241 (reconstructed image with FWN 783 [pl. 242], p. 199), National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Published References
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 129, ill., as L'Homme à la pipe.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 566, ill. vol. II, as L'homme à la pipe.
Goldwater, Robert J. "Cézanne in America: The Master's Paintings in American Collections." Art News Annual 36, no. 26 (March 26, 1938), p. 158, ill.
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1975, no. 2588, p. 63, ill., as Man with Pipe.
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, p. 56, fig. 36.
Rewald, John. The Paintings of Paul Cézanne, A Catalogue Raisonné, 2 vols. In Collaboration with Walter Feilchenfeldt and Jayne Warman. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996, no. 711, ill. vol. 2, as L'Homme à la pipe.
Parker, Robert McD. "Catalogue of the Stein Collections." In The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso and the Parisian Avent-Garde, edited by Janet Bishop, Cécile Debray, and Rebecca Rabinow. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 396–97, no. 13, ill., as Man with Pipe.
Record last updated April 12, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "L'Homme à la pipe, 1892–96 (FWN 683)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=689 (accessed on February 16, 2025).